Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard – Tom Felton

Genre: Non-FictionPublisher: Grand Central PublishingPages: 304Release Date: October 18, 2022 “At lunchtime we would congregate in the canteen, which was always a fun moment. There was no separation of roles. An electrician would be queuing for his lunch next to a witch and a goblin, then a cameraman, a carpenter and Hagrid”.  Tom Felton’s adolescence was …

Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021 – Margaret Atwood

Genre: NonfictionPublisher: Doubleday BooksPages: 496Release Date: March 1, 2022 This brilliant selection of essays—funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient—seeks answers to Burning Questions such as:• Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?• How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?• How can we live on our planet?• Is it true? And …

Know My Name – Chanel Miller

Genre: MemoirPublisher: VikingPages: 357Release Date: September 24, 2019 She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford’s campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where …

They Said This Would Be Fun – Eternity Martis

Genre: Non-FictionPublisher: McClelland & StewartPages: 244Release Date: March 31, 2020 < A powerful, moving memoir about what it's like to be a student of colour on a predominantly white campus.A booksmart kid from Toronto, Eternity Martis was excited to move away to Western University for her undergraduate degree. But as one of the few Black …

White Fragility – Robin DiAngelo

Genre: Non-Fiction Publisher: Beacon PressPages: 169Release Date: June 26, 2018 The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, …

90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality – Allison Yarrow

Genre: Nonfiction, Feminism  Publisher: Harper Perennial  Pages: 397 Release Date: June 19, 2018 The close of the 20th century promised a new era of gender equality. However, the iconic women of the 1990s—such as Hillary Clinton, Courtney Love, Roseanne Barr, Marcia Clark, and Anita Hill—earned their places in history not as trailblazers, but as whipping …

If I Had Your Face – Frances Cha

DNF @ 52% Genre: Non-fiction Publisher: Ballantine Books Pages: 288 Release Date: April 21, 2020 A riveting debut novel set in contemporary Seoul, Korea, about four young women making their way in a world defined by impossibly high standards of beauty, secret room salons catering to wealthy men, strict social hierarchies, and K-pop fan mania. …

When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains – Ariana Neumann

Genre: Memoir Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pages: 336 Release Date: February 4, 2020 In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: years spent hiding in plain sight in war-torn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew. In …

The Great Pretender – Susannah Cahalan

Genre: Non Fiction, Psychology Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Pages: 400 Release Date: November 5, 2019 For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness-how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan …

How We Fight For Our Lives – Saeed Jones

Genre: Memoir Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pages: 192 Release Date: October 8, 2019 From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power. “People don’t just happen,” writes Saeed Jones. “We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people …